Quotes about Workforce Utilization

Jon Huntsman Jr.

You’re putting in the same number of hours a week but we are just repackaging it more efficiently.

The benefits claimed included reducing traffic and gasoline consumption by eliminating one work day for commuting, having a more attractive work situation for the state to attract manpower, saving employees costs of child care and commuting, and a reduction in energy costs for keeping 1000 state buildings open 1 less day. Despite the obvious advantage of the idea, it is amazing that more governments and private firms do not follow this idea.

Leland Stanford

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Luis von Ahn

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

Abraham Lincoln

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Thomas Paine

Our present numbers are so happily proportioned to our wants that no man need be idle.

Actually, the proportion was not so well balanced. Americans were wanting more consumer goods and there was a shortage of labor in 1776. That shortage was particularly critical with various skilled craftsmen ranging from gunsmiths to experienced sailors; carpenters to surveyors. But there was also a shortage of unskilled workers, so Paine’s point was correct: Unemployment was not a problem in colonial America.

Carlos Fuentes

When we have a better, more social, more responsible, less egotistical, less corrupt system, Mexico will be able to give work to the millions of Mexicans who have to build our roads, dams, schools, all the things that are left undone in Mexico while we have the manpower. There is something very bad going on, on both sides of the border in Mexico and the US. But the worker is a worker, not a criminal. So, I am in favor of a solution such as the Kennedy-McCain proposals that make it clear what steps have to be taken to accept the fact that the US needs foreign workers.

William Beveridge

Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.

Marcus Buckingham

CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

Maggie Kuhn

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

Arancha Gonzalez

Japan has huge potential in women - potential, especially in the area of the economy, that Japan is not using fully.

Workforce Utilization Quotes